Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
VenueGeorgia Tech Aquatic Center
Date26 July 1996 (heats & final)
Competitors34 from 26 nations
Winning time14:56.40
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kieren Perkins  Australia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Daniel Kowalski  Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Graeme Smith  Great Britain
Swimming at the
1996 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
50 mmenwomen
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 m
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen
4 × 200 mmenwomen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1996 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta, United States.[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Kieren Perkins (AUS) 14:41.66 Victoria, Canada 24 August 1994
Olympic record  Kieren Perkins (AUS) 14:43.48 Barcelona, Spain 31 July 1992

Results

Heats

Rule: The eight fastest swimmers advance to final A (Q).[2]

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 4 Daniel Kowalski  Australia 15:12.55 Q
2 3 4 Graeme Smith  Great Britain 15:14.81 Q
3 5 5 Aleksey Akatyev  Russia 15:16.47 Q
4 5 1 Emiliano Brembilla  Italy 15:16.72 Q, NR
5 4 5 Jörg Hoffmann  Germany 15:18.61 Q
6 5 2 Masato Hirano  Japan 15:19.48 Q
7 3 7 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 15:19.98 Q, AF
8 5 4 Kieren Perkins  Australia 15:21.42 Q
9 5 6 Steffen Zesner  Germany 15:21.65
10 3 3 Paul Palmer  Great Britain 15:22.65
11 4 7 Luiz Lima  Brazil 15:24.16
12 4 3 Peter Wright  United States 15:25.43
13 3 5 Carlton Bruner  United States 15:25.82
14 4 6 Alexei Butsenin  Russia 15:31.27
15 3 6 Ihor Snitko  Ukraine 15:31.40
16 4 8 Torlarp Sethsothorn  Thailand 15:40.04 NR
17 4 1 Yann de Fabrique  France 15:40.49
18 5 3 Marco Formentini  Italy 15:41.14
19 2 2 Sergey Mikhnovets  Belarus 15:41.80 NR
20 2 4 Ricardo Monasterio  Venezuela 15:42.39
21 3 1 Frederik Hviid  Spain 15:42.40
22 5 7 Hisato Yasui  Japan 15:43.66
23 2 5 Jacob Carstensen  Denmark 15:43.75
24 3 2 Denys Zavhorodnyy  Ukraine 15:46.79
25 3 8 Lee Kyu-chang  South Korea 15:47.92
26 2 7 Agustín Fiorilli  Argentina 15:51.85
27 2 3 Scott Cameron  New Zealand 15:56.60
28 4 2 Igor Majcen  Slovenia 16:10.81
29 1 4 Ramón Valle  Honduras 16:14.76
30 2 6 Dimitrios Manganas  Greece 16:15.94
31 2 1 Pedro Ferreira  Portugal 16:34.55
32 5 8 Hisham Al-Masri  Syria 16:42.35
33 1 3 Hamed Rezakhani  Iran 17:22.86
34 1 5 Rashid Salim Al-Ma'shari  Oman 18:11.59

Final

[3]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 8 Kieren Perkins  Australia 14:56.40
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 Daniel Kowalski  Australia 15:02.43
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 5 Graeme Smith  Great Britain 15:02.48 NR
4 6 Emiliano Brembilla  Italy 15:08.58 NR
5 1 Ryk Neethling  South Africa 15:14.63 AF
6 7 Masato Hirano  Japan 15:17.28 NR
7 2 Jörg Hoffmann  Germany 15:18.86
8 3 Aleksey Akatyev  Russia 15:21.68

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Heats" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. pp. 40–41. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Atlanta 1996: Swimming – Men's 1500m Freestyle Final" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 41. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
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